Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

Chapter 3: Film Techniques

[3.2] Visual Literacy: Starting with the Image

[3.3] Studying Images through Digital Editing

[3.4] Comics and Film Technique

[3.5] Teaching Film Technique

[3.5a] Lighting

[3.5b] Editing

[3.5c] Sound

[3.6] Exploring Film Technique through Video Production

[3.7] Exploring Editing Through Storyboards and Animations

[3.8] Analysis/Evaluation of Film Technique

[3.9] Film History

[3.10] Television History

[3.11] Responding to and Analyzing Films

[3.12] Fostering Classroom Discussions of Film

[3.13] Image-Sound Skim

[3.14] Writing about Films

[3.15] Film Study Resources

[3.16] Film Journals/Magazines

[3.17] References

[3.18] Teaching Activities

Chapter 3

[3.2] Visual Literacy: Starting with the Image

Elements of Film Technique

[3.2.1] 21st Century Literacies: Structual Comparisons

[3.2.2] Lecture notes related to Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (1996) by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen

Photo editing:

[3.2.3] Photoplus
[3.2.4] VicMan's Photo Editor
[3.2.5] Myimager

[3.2.6] The On-line Visual Literacy Project at Pomona College

[3.2.7] Webquest: How to “read” a painting

[3.2.8] Webquest: Analyzing the Hiroshige Woodblock Images: Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido

[3.2.9] 21st Century Literacies: Framing and Point of View

[3.2.10] 21st Century Literacies: Images As Persuasion

[3.2.11] The PBS program, The Power of Stills, includes analysis of the use of images in American photography history.

Other resources for visual literacy activities:

[3.2.12] International Visual Literacy Association

[3.2.13] Visual Literacy resource links

[3.2.14] Visual Arts Topics Index

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[3.2.16] Pomono College: Online Visual Literacy Project

[3.2.17] University of Nebraska, Lincoln — Visual Literacy Collaboration

[3.2.18] Visual Literacy and the Net

[3.2.19] Digital Images and the “New” Visual Literacy

[3.2.20] Open Directory Project — Visual Literacy

[3.2.21] Visual Thinking/Visual Computing

[3.2.22] Visual Literacy in the Age of Digital Photographic Reproduction

[3.2.23] 2Learn Teacher Tools: Visual Literacy

[3.2.24] University of Iowa Communication Studies Resources: Visual Communication

[3.2.25]

[3.2.26] Visual Arts Young Viewers Index

[3.2.27] A Routledge Journal: Visual Studies

[3.2.28] Google Video: video clips for use in analysis film techniques

[3.2.29]  Google: National Archives footage

[3.2.30] Ditto.com: image database searchable by keyword; includes URL for seeking permissions

[3.2.31] Photoblogs.org: links to thousands of photography blogs

[3.2.32] Photolog

[3.2.33] Photojunkie

[3.2.34] Constant Camera

[3.2.35] Bill Nyman

[3.2.36] Donald and Christine McQuade: Visual exercises: Seeing and Writing 3

[3.2.37] Donald and Christine McQuade: Researching the Web: Seeing and Writing 3 Donald and Christine McQuade

[3.2.38]: Donald and Christine McQuade Forum: Seeing and Writing 3

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[3.2.40] Visual rhetoric assignments: ways of using visual images in writing assignments

[3.2.41] New Media Center: conference on visual literacy: conference papers

 

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